just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there

☁️🚂 When brain fog rolls in, I may forget my own birthday, ask someone’s name 3 times and hold a remote upside down. Lyme can jumble your thoughts, obscure memories, and reduce your focus. When your train of thought crashes, what silly things do you do?

I think…… they’re done….

*weakly wabbles in a circular motion, then falls to bed, tablet pen in hand*

“I’m really sad you’re going through all this”

Said to me in response on my chronic Illness situation and tbh it’s one of the kindest things someone has said to me about it.

Tick season means it’s time to worry about Lyme disease!!! (especially if you’re in New England like me)

Beyond Lyme: New Tick-Borne Diseases On The Rise In U.S.

The doctors thought Tucker Lane was going through opiate withdrawal. His mother Lynn Cash felt differently: “I knew it was a tick thing.”

Scans of his brain showed that it was swelling. And he was quickly losing consciousness. His doctors decided to rush him to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

“By the time they got him upstairs [into a room], within another 48 hours, he was in a coma,” Cash says.

Although doctors didn’t realize it at the time, it was a tick-borne disease called Powassan flooding Lane’s brain.

Ticks are a growing problem in the U.S. Over the past 50 years, scientists have detected a dozen new diseases transmitted by the critters across the U.S.

There are many ways to protect yourself from tick-borne diseases. Wear long sleeves, spray on DEET and check yourself every night in the mirror — just to name a few.

But protecting whole towns, or even just a neighborhood, has been difficult.

But scientists think they’ve come up with a way that may finally cut down on the cases of tick-borne illnesses in the Northeast: mice. 

Read the full story here. 

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